syzbot is reporting unkillable task [1], for the caller is failing to handle a corrupted filesystem image which attempts to access beyond the end of the device. While we need to fix the caller, flooding the console with handle_bad_sector() message is unlikely useful. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f1f49fb971d7a3e01bd8ab8cff2ff4572ccf3092 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 10c08ac50697..8b67b6e941db 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -803,8 +803,8 @@ static void handle_bad_sector(struct bio *bio, sector_t maxsector) { char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; - printk(KERN_INFO "attempt to access beyond end of device\n"); - printk(KERN_INFO "%s: rw=%d, want=%Lu, limit=%Lu\n", + printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO "attempt to access beyond end of device\n"); + printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO "%s: rw=%d, want=%Lu, limit=%Lu\n", bio_devname(bio, b), bio->bi_opf, (unsigned long long)bio_end_sector(bio), (long long)maxsector); -- 2.18.4